AI assistant for SOLIDWORKS

Vega The AI that works inside SOLIDWORKS.

Ask it like you would ask a colleague in the design office and it does it in your session: parts, drawings, assemblies, manufacturing and reports.

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In action

Vega at work in SOLIDWORKS

Real requests, start to finish, in a SOLIDWORKS session.

What it is

One more colleague in your design office

Vega lives in the SOLIDWORKS panel. Tell it what you need in your own words and it does it in your session, on the parts, drawings and assemblies you have open.

Write to it

In the panel chat, as you would to a colleague.

Talk to it

By voice, real-time conversation included.

Show it

An attached photo, sketch or screenshot.

Vega In SOLIDWORKS

Create a 200 × 120 × 10 mm plate with four M8 through holes in the corners

Vega:

Done: the plate with its four holes 15 mm from the edges. Shall I save it?

Yes, and make its drawing

Vega:

Saved. The drawing is ready with your template: three views and an isometric, fitted to the sheet.

What Vega does

Everything it can do

Eleven areas of work, from the first part to the manufacturing package.

Parts

Models from a description, a sketch or a photo, with real SOLIDWORKS features.

  • Part from a description, a sketch or a photo: sketches, extrusions, cuts, fillets, mirrors and patterns.
  • Hole Wizard holes (through, tapped, countersunk and counterbored), single, in rows or in patterns.
  • Shafts for motors and gearmotors in one request: steps, chamfers, retaining-ring grooves, DIN 6885 keyways, DIN 332 centre holes, fits and IEC shaft ends.
  • Ribs, sweeps (round tubes too), lofts, draft angles and cosmetic threads.
  • Variants of a part or an assembly: configurations, an Excel design table or one file per variant with its drawing.
  • Material, mass, volume, centre of gravity and dimensions of the bodies.

Ask it like this

  • «Create a 200 × 120 × 10 mm plate»
  • «Add an M8 tapped hole in the centre of the top face»
  • «Fillet the corners to 5 mm»
  • «Make 5 variants increasing the width in 20 mm steps»
Parts: See examples

Sheet metal

Complete folded sheet metal in a single request, or a solid converted to sheet metal.

  • Sheet metal part in one request: base, flanges, hems, holes and cut-outs.
  • Turn a solid into sheet metal; fold and flatten it.
  • Structure base plates as sheet metal, with their flat pattern.
  • Sheet metal review for manufacturing: bend radii, reliefs and holes close to bends.

Ask it like this

  • «Convert this part to 3 mm sheet metal»
  • «Review the sheet metal for manufacturing»
Sheet metal: See examples

Weldments

Frames, portals, trusses and sheds with profiles from your libraries, trimmed and joined.

  • Complete structure in one request from its layout: profiles from your libraries, automatic joints and trims.
  • Trusses and sheds: chords, posts, diagonals, ridge and eaves mitred with no overlaps.
  • Gussets, end caps and base plates placed where they belong.
  • Change profiles, trim and extend members.
  • Quick, indicative check of steel beams and columns (Eurocode 3): bending, shear, deflection, buckling and lateral-torsional buckling.

Ask it like this

  • «Will a 4 m IPE 200 hold 5 kN/m?»
  • «Check the 3 m HEB 160 column with 200 kN»
  • «Which profile do I need for a 5 m beam with 10 kN/m?»
Weldments: See examples Cutting optimisation: See examples

Assemblies

Builds whole products, edits existing ones and organises their files without breaking anything.

  • Build a complete product in one request: its parts, the weldment and the mates.
  • Edit an assembly: add, move, fix, mate or remove components.
  • Rename components and their drawings without breaking references.
  • Code every file with a prefix and a number (P0001, E0001) plus a CSV list of old and new names.
  • Standard Toolbox fasteners and bearings, placed in their holes.
  • Check interferences and positions.

Ask it like this

  • «Add 4 M10x40 socket head screws in the plate holes»
  • «Insert a 6205 ball bearing on the shaft»
  • «Add a stop to the assembly and move the table top»
  • «Rename the parts with prefix P and the subassemblies with E»
Assemblies & variants: See examples

Drawings

Drawings with your template, dimensioned and ready for the shop floor, assembly drawings too.

  • Drawing of a part or of every part in an assembly, with your template, the views you choose and a round scale.
  • Dimension in one request and place the views without overlaps; shafts dimensioned as if by hand.
  • Assembly drawing: exploded view, bill of materials and balloons.
  • New revision: a row in the revision table, the letter in the title block and a PDF with the revision in its name.
  • Configurations on drawings: a table of dimensions per configuration, a bill of materials per configuration or one drawing for each.
  • Find existing drawings.

Ask it like this

  • «Create the drawing with 3 standard views and an isometric, fitted to the sheet»
  • «Dimension the drawing»
  • «Make the assembly drawing with front, top and isometric views at 1:5»
  • «New revision: hole to Ø12, approved by AA, with PDF»
Drawings: See examples

Manufacturing & export

Reviews before manufacturing and prepares what goes to the workshop or the supplier.

  • Manufacturing review of a part: holes close to edges, bends or other holes, thin walls and threads.
  • Review of a whole assembly, part by part, without the fasteners.
  • Manufacturing package in one request: PDF drawings, DXF of the sheet metal, STEP and an Excel file with the bill of materials and the cut list.
  • PDF of one or many drawings, STEP of parts and assemblies, an image of the view and the bill of materials to Excel.
  • 3D viewer in HTML to share the model without SOLIDWORKS.

Ask it like this

  • «Prepare the manufacturing package for the assembly»
  • «Send the supplier the PDF and the DXF of the sheet metal parts»
  • «Review the assembly for manufacturing»
  • «Export the active part to 3D HTML»
Export & 3D: See examples Manufacturing review: See examples

Reports

A4 reports and documents in your own style: your logo, your colours and your look.

  • Reports in your own style: your logo, your colours and your look, or the standard style. Another colour, another order or more sections? Just ask and it changes it.
  • Any A4 report or document: a printable page that is kept and, if you ask, a PDF too.
  • Manufacturing report for the active part or assembly: views, material, mass, dimensions, properties, bill of materials and cut list.
  • Report of the manufacturing review and of the beam and column check.

Ask it like this

  • «Make the manufacturing report for this part as PDF»
  • «Use our logo and our colours»
  • «Make the report blue»
  • «Add a section with the assembly photos»
Reports: See examples

Properties & languages

Properties of hundreds of files in one request and drawings in several languages.

  • Batch properties: create, change values, rename, delete, replace, copy and link to mass, material or dimensions, in parts, assemblies, folders or drawings.
  • Translate properties into any language («_en», «_fr»…) keeping the originals, whole folders too.
  • Translate drawing notes, tables and title block into 9 languages, keeping each language inside the drawing.
  • Many drawings in a single translation: a list, a folder or the assembly's drawings, and it can resume after being stopped.
  • Closed files without opening them: properties, preview and review of whole folders.

Ask it like this

  • «Rename the Weight property to Mass and link it to the mass in every configuration»
  • «Translate the component properties into French»
  • «Translate the drawing notes into English»
  • «Translate every drawing in the project folder into French»
Translations & properties: See examples

Materials & appearance

Materials from your databases and render finishes, part by part or for a whole assembly.

  • Materials from your databases, colours, transparency, image textures and render finishes.
  • Materials for every part of an assembly in one request, according to what each part is, without saving until you ask.

Ask it like this

  • «Assign materials to every part according to what it is»
  • «Make the cover black anodised aluminium»
Render & video: See examples

The assistant

How it works with you: it understands what you ask, asks only what it needs and never saves without permission.

  • Understands text, attached images and voice, real-time conversation included.
  • Asks with options only when a decision is missing; otherwise it carries on without interrupting you.
  • Shows a preview of the design before building it.
  • Clear conversation: tables, notices, collapsible steps and a capture of the result.
  • Saves only when you ask; when it finishes it asks and suggests a name.

Ask it like this

  • «What can you do?»
  • «Make me this part (with a photo attached)»
  • «Show me how it would look before making it»

History & learning

Keeps every conversation, learns from your ratings and remembers how you like to work.

  • Conversation history on your computer: search by words or by document, see the summary, delete them or continue with their parts, assemblies and drawings.
  • You rate each answer with a thumbs up or down, and Vega learns what worked to do it the same way next time.
  • Remembers your preferences: drawing template, output folder, file names and bill of materials columns.
  • Saves your usual procedures to repeat them with a single request.

Ask it like this

  • «Always use this template for my drawings»
  • «Save the PDFs in the project folder»
  • «Now make its drawing (after continuing a conversation from the history)»

How it works

From request to result

It doesn't give you instructions to follow: it does the work in your SOLIDWORKS and checks every step before calling it done.

You ask → Understands → Works → Checks → Delivers. if a detail is missing, it asks with options. if something doesn't add up, it fixes it. You ask In text, by voice, with a photo or a sketch Understands What you need, in your own words Works In your SOLIDWORKS, on what you have open Checks Bodies, dimensions and drawings, step by step Delivers Summary and capture; saves if you ask request plan changes result if a detail is missing, it asks with options if something doesn't add up, it fixes it
  1. You ask In text, by voice, with a photo or a sketch
  2. Understands What you need, in your own words ↺ if a detail is missing, it asks with options
  3. Works In your SOLIDWORKS, on what you have open
  4. Checks Bodies, dimensions and drawings, step by step ↺ if something doesn't add up, it fixes it
  5. Delivers Summary and capture; saves if you ask

The dashed arrows are the two ways back: asking when a decision is missing and fixing when something doesn't add up.

Made for you

It adapts to you

It remembers what you have done together, learns from what you rate and signs reports with your brand.

History

Every conversation is kept on your computer: search it, see its summary and continue with its parts, assemblies and drawings.

Learns from you

You rate its answers with a thumbs up or down and it remembers what worked, and your preferences too: template, folder and names.

Reports in your style

With your logo, your colours and your look. Another colour or one more section? Just ask and it changes it.

With your files

How it looks after your work

Works on what you have open

The parts, drawings and assemblies in your SOLIDWORKS session, with your templates and your libraries.

Asks only what it needs

If a decision is missing, it gives you options to choose from; otherwise it carries on without interrupting you.

Checks every step

It looks at bodies, dimensions and drawings before calling it done, and fixes anything that doesn't add up.

Never saves without permission

When it finishes it asks whether to save and suggests a name. You can stop it at any time.

Demo

Request a demo

We will show you Vega live, in SOLIDWORKS and, if you like, with your own parts and drawings.

  • Live, in a SOLIDWORKS session.
  • With your parts, drawings or assemblies, if you like.
  • We reply by email to find a time that suits you.

We take you to the CimWorks form: tell us what you do and we will get in touch to set up the demo.

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